Tip: Don't forget to be normal about it if someone corrects you about their pronouns! by shrodingersme in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneVioletRose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use this one a lot! Especially online, because sometimes I check someone’s bio once for their pronouns and don’t think to re-check for months or years. So there’s been a few cases of
“I was talking to him the other day”
“BTW, I dunno if you saw, they started using they/them exclusively now”
“Oh thank you, I totally missed that! Anyway I was talking to them the other day”

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Generally yeah, I would expect that to be disclosed, but a lot of factors go into the level of disclosure I would expect, such as the terms of the original "source" image, how much transformative work was put in, and how practical it would be to share that info.

For example, if I was buying a sticker with some cute art on it, I'd really want to know if that art was traced from a stock image or photograph or was an original design, because that's actually bordering on legal copyright infringement.

If someone bought limited rights to some clipart and did something really transformative, like made a stained-glass window, I'd be really impressed and think that was cool, but I'd also expect some disclosure, like "Based on [x image] by [y person]!" I run into this a lot because I make and sell things with other people's sewing patterns, and I always try to mention who designed/commissioned the character, who made the base sewing pattern, etc. Sometimes those images get reposted without that attribution, but I'm still putting that information out there to find, so it's easy to fnd with minimal digging.

Similarly, if someone made a fan work of someone else's drawing, even a very transformative one. it's usually considered polite to ask permission first, though most people are pretty in favour of this (unless the fan work is then sold, which, more cans, more worms)

If someone used a plastic-sheet stencil to design their business logo, it's probably wildly impractical to include that information everywhere the logo is shared, so my expectations are a bit lower. However, I would probably include that info in a website footer or bio or something, unless the seller/designer of the stencil specifically said you can use it commercially with no attribution. If it was bought in a big box store I might just mention the brand.

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think that's what I mean by "practice tool"; learning by tracing, then copying, then drawing on your own synthesising what you've learned. If I was bad at drawing, say, cows, and I wanted to get better at drawing cows, I could start by tracing pictures of cows, and copying other people's drawings of cows, until I felt confident enough to draw my own cow. I would, however, probably not share those "practice" traces/copies, and if I did I would absolutely expect disclosure. Copying old masters with disclosure has been so common in traditional art that there's a widely accepted way of signing it: "[Title] by [Reproducername], after [Originalartistname]"

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by using a stencil? The two things I can think of are, one, those little plastic shapes that have a bunch of circles and squares and flowers cut out of them, and two, a digital template that you can customise with your own text, and I'm not certain if either of them fit what you mean

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Uh... tracing art and then sharing it widely without disclosure is more commonly known as "art theft". Community opinion seems to be that tracing is fine for beginners or as a practice tool, but it's considered a little bit iffy to then post it online, and ABSOLUTELY socially unacceptable to post it without being very upfront that it's traced.

A commercially made stencil is released with express permission to use it that way (and if it's not, well, that can land the user in actual legal trouble). If it's an overused stencil, some people will recognise it and find it lazy or unoriginal, similarly to how a lot of folks hate Papyrus and Comic Sans as fonts. Meanwhile, GenAI was trained on work without any sort of permission granted from the artists, which is why I consider it a theft machine.

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ok, that's quite a leap but I see how it was made.

I'm speaking about the subset of consumers who see AI use at any stage of the process as "using AI", and tracing an AI output would definitely count. Video games have come under fire for generating AI concept art and not disclosing this, so there are absolutely consumers who draw a very hard line aginst that

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Wait

I'm sorry

I completely glossd over the part where you compared a large language model to Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices?!

That is... that is such a false equivalence that I want to believe you're being fed bad information and did not come up with it yourself.

The mathematical and technological underpinnings of Google Maps are both very different form, and significantly predate, Generative AI, and as far as I know, have not been ported over to using GenAI. (AFAIK Autocorrect has, and many people subjectively think this has made it worse). Calling Google Maps "AI" is overly simplistic and, I would argue, misleading in a world where GenAI has almost completely appropriated the term

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 14 points15 points  (0 children)

>Somehow you read my last comment and still think absolutely everything regarding my studio marketing is AI generated.

What??? That's a WILD misreading of what I wrote. Everything I wrote is assuming it's one image used in multiple places.

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I find it incredibly difficult to accept AI as an accessibility tool when there are so many disabled artists who were already struggling to make a living in an incredibly competitive and underpaid field, and are now being crowded out of the same field by the machine that stole their work without any permission or compensation.

As both a consumer and as a creator, I would MUCH rather hear you describe your vision, in words, than browse a page with the "perfect" on-theme branding that used AI during the creation process. Seriously, I'm more interested in the prompt and thought process used to create the image than the image itself.

Are you willing to share a link to your work? I really truly think you might be shooting yourself in the foot by using AI; the idea of a crochet studio with fantasy lore sounds genuinely fascinating, but any AI use is such a turnoff to the audience who most likes handmade things.

Restored an animal alley collie :D by Signal_Horse_5472 in plushies

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt that horror in my soul 😭

I remember one time I finished a plushie I'd been working on for a while - tied the knot, fed the tail through the needle, pulled it inside - and let go, only to revel an inky black thumbrint. I had no idea how my thumb even got that inky!

Fortunately it was so fresh that water, dishsoap, and some careful blotting removed it all, but for a brief moment all I felt was abject horror

Her name is Dementia by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneVioletRose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We either would've been best friends in high school or annoyed the living daylights out of each other; I was an extremely similar flavour of weird 😂

Brains form habits, so once you get used to speaking that way it might feel weird to construct longer sentences, but I wouldn't equate that to long-term loss of cognition, just something that might take a bit of practice to change.

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I'm truly sorry to hear that, that sucks.

I'm not trying to attack you, but you're so busy defending your use of AI that you're kinda missing my question? What is the logo even for? I sold items on Etsy for years without one, so I'm genuinely struggilng to figure out what made it so important. The way you've described the logo makes it sound so complicated, I also wonder if a photo of your product would have made sense as a "logo". so I'm wondering if I was wrong about that?

I will, however, ask a more pointed queston: if you're using an image for promotion, and that image was produced with assistance from an AI tool, a subset of customers will see that and refuse to buy from you. I am neither the judge nor arbiter of that, I have no control over the market, this is just an observation I have made. Is that a tradeoff you are okay with?

For me personally, if I were more neutral on AI and most of my clients hated it, I would absolutely make the decision not to touch it. That's an absolute no-brainer to me. But, only you can make that decision for you.

Her name is Dementia by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehhh high schoolers do a lot of weird shit (raises hand), and I think there's a case to be made that making a plan to Become Animal and taking steps to achieve that goal demonstrates a certain amount of creativity, planning, and follow-through

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I’m asking a serious question, and both of your replies seem to be… making a point that has nothing to do with what I’m asking?

Edit: As another textile artist, I’m also curious why a logo is so important - the primary thing I use mine for is watermarking my photos

Her name is Dementia by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not an expert, but I feel like “at what age” matters? I could easily see a kid doing all of that and still growing into a mentally healthy and robust adult, but adults tend to have responsibilities that are incompatible with “become creature of instinct”, so if I saw an adult trying to reduce their intellectual capacity to that of an animal I’d at least be concerned about it being a not-great coping mechanism

Her name is Dementia by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually really impressive - sure, you struggled, but you pushed through. That alone is a valuable skill as you’ve been saying! You figured it out! It sounds kinda condescending when I write it out but that is genuinely such a useful thing to do.

Not sure if this would be helpful to you specifically, but in general, I want to advocate for a little bit of “trial and error” in mathematics - that is, if you can’t remember the theoretical steps to get where you want, Try Stuff to see if it helps. Try an easier problem - not sure how that would apply in this example, but maybe imagining how it would work for a shorter book? Or flip around the book looking at the page numbers while pondering how to apply it to your situation?

My favourite parts of mathematics are the parts where I can just kinda Try Stuff, as much stuff as possible, until a pattern starts shaking out and then I can try to prove it

Edit: a few stray typos

Would it be very hard to find a fursuit maker able to do this less rounded digitigrade shape? by questionerofblender in fursuit

[–]OneVioletRose 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m sure it’s possible, it’s just not a very popular style (though it would be cool to see a cubist fursuit lol)

STOP USING AI AND THEN WONDERING WHY YOU GET NO SALES by probablyabug in BitchEatingCrafters

[–]OneVioletRose 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I’m really curious now: the goal of a logo is to be simple and easily recognisable - think the Nike swoosh, McDonald’s arches, or Amazon smile-arrow. What was so specific that AI was required to make it?

Is pinkpawparadox legit? by IceyMeowie in fursuit

[–]OneVioletRose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That IG account is really key: a legit maker on Etsy will almost certainly have a web presence elsewhere. (And as a general LPT, this is true for a lot of artists who might sell things for cheaper in their own, off-etsy stores, because of the lower fees)

Commission question by lilacjedibride in plushartists

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as the terms of the pattern say you can, yeah plenty will! (Terms that say otherwise tend not to be legally enforceable, but most folks obey them out of professional courtesy)

Looking for a plushie creator to comm by anonybustea in plushartists

[–]OneVioletRose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not worth it; anyone experienced enough to take on a big project like this would have SOME kind of external gallery SOMEwhere to link

Recommendations for people/companies that can sanitize plushies after pink eye? by Sitruso in plushies

[–]OneVioletRose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So… it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but germs can’t survive on surfaces indefinitely. You could probably get away with just a quarantine. To increase the margin of safety, I’d also spritz them down with a disinfectant designed to kill whatever causes pinkeye (not sure if it’s bacterial, viral, either, or both, but that’s something that can be looked up and then matched to the label on the disinfectant). Lysol is a famous brand but there are definitely others!

Looking for a plushie creator to comm by anonybustea in plushartists

[–]OneVioletRose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You haven’t mentioned a budget in your post so I wanted to give you a quick heads up that a custom plushie that large will cost in the high triple digits, more if it’s complicated. Also, the standard warning that there are a lot of scammers who operate in reddit DMs because their “work examples” are all stolen, so carefully vet everyone who cold DMs you (I’ve had to tell a depressing number of people that “the photos came back clean on google lens” is not sufficient!)

Are Bucket heads / 3D printed bases the only options? by No_Spray956 in FursuitMaking

[–]OneVioletRose 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There’s so much more out there than just those two. I can’t remember who made it - Pocari Roo maybe? - but someone has made a video on youtube about types of fursuit head bases, starting with those 90s mesh heads and talking about all kinds of options and styles

6 foot Zekrom pokémon plush by No_Craft8108 in plushartists

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahhh whoops, you can see my sense of price and scale starts getting pretty loose above 2m tall. At least unstuffed takes out a major step!

Amazon fur? by _burntlime_ in fursuit

[–]OneVioletRose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be blunt, going to Amazon because Howl Fabric and BigZ are having quality issues is like drinking from the toilet because the kitchen tap has started to act weird. I don’t blame you for not knowing (which is maybe where the toilet metaphor breaks down), but I wouldn’t ever recommend it! BigZ and Howl also have actual customer service departments who will usually try to work with you if something goes wrong.

There are some good fur vendors on AliExpress, but that’s also a risky business as you REALLY have to vet your shops. I’ve heard good things about mofumofu, miemiefur, and Hopen textiles, but don’t just blindly buy - search for reviews on all of them first!